Ashley's Birthday

We all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.  Bode was off the whole week from school, and my last class was on Tuesday morning.  Thus, we had some lovely family time.  Teddy and Charlie were able to come down on Tuesday night and they stayed with us until the end of Thanksgiving dinner.  It's always nice when Bode has others in the house with whom to play.  We went swimming for a couple hours on Wednesday, and the boys watched movies and played games.  I didn't take many pictures, although I did get a shot of the boys eating and one of Bode and Teddy with Joey in the middle.

Grammy was kind enough to bring some "snow balls", which were simply these white pillow-balls, so we had to have a few snow-ball fights.

The balls were very light, such that you had to be careful to not throw your arm out :-)  Ashley made a wonderful dinner--some type of Cajun-turkey rub with all the fixings, and the guests brought a lot of the sides, to include some wonderful deviled eggs from Jennie, which I proceeded to eat the entire weekend.

David and Ashley both celebrate birthdays during Thanksgiving week.  Dave is now 43, and Ashley is 46.  Dave and I celebrated Thanksgiving by running the Turkey Trot, a 5k up in Briargate.  Teddy ran with us, and did amazing, coming in just under 25:00.  I surprised myself and ran a 21:30, which makes me feel old because I used to be able to go much faster, but it was still good enough for 4th place out of 136 people in my age group.  Here are a couple pictures of those of us that are "forty-something."

The weekend culminated with Ashley's birthday.  We didn't do anything exciting--went to lunch and then to see Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.  We had a small dinner (we have eaten far too much these past five days), and a small cake.  We did pause for some pictures.

We all go back to work/school tomorrow.  But then big holiday break is in sight...if we can only maintain our motivation for the next three weeks, we'll have a nice ski-vacation to meet us at the end.  Pleasant week to all.